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Constitution to regulate the extent of governmental cryptanalysis
There have been some lobbying to draw a line between what is deemed to be acceptable level of government 'surveillance' in civilian use of encryption, and what is not deemed to be acceptable. Statistically, larger countries have more problems to be solved before achieving this goal than smaller ones.

Limiting use of crypto system in civilian domain
For existing methods of encryption, an individual or a corporation requires a license/approval for certain types of usage, to be imposed on commercial vendors. However, this would present a dilemma as vendors have to cater to different countries employ different constitutional policy that regulates the use of encryption to keep information private.

Restriction of encryption security by regulating availability of crypto system in civilian domain.
An independent organisation may be established to regulate the types of encryption methods that are allowed for use by civilian. At the same time, this body may have to guarantee the confidentiality of the information encrypted.

Escrow system
In 1993, Escrowed Encryption Standard was introduced in USA. It involves deposition of complete data for each cryptosystem used in civilian context, and protect the information from surveillance unless disclosure (decryption) is ordered by the court.


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